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Residents of Port-au-Prince reach out for water distributed outside the Hospital Espoire by the humanitarian group Save the Children.

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Water, food and hygiene supplies are delivered to the Hospital Espoire by the humanitarian group Save the Children in Port-au-Prince. A 20-foot-container truck full of water, food and hygiene supplies was delivered to the pediatric hospital to help fight shortages of basic necessities caused by the devastating earthquake.

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A young earthquake survivor holds a bowl as he waits in line for high protein biscuits from the World Food Program in Port-au-Prince.

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An old man is fed a few nuts by his nephew while lying outside his quake damaged nursing home in Port-au-Prince.. More than 100 old men and women were living outside the home, that was damaged during Tuesday’s earthquake, with no food or care other than an occasional bath from two medical orderlies who remained to help.

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People scuffle for looted goods being thrown off the roof of a general store in Port au Prince.

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People scuffle for looted goods.

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Looted goods being thrown off the roof of a general store in Port au Prince.

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People on the street scuffle for looted goods being thrown off the roof of a general store in Port au Prince.

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People fight for goods being thrown off the roof of a general store the country’s capital.

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A man bites the the food on the hand of another as people on the street scuffle for looted goods being thrown off the roof of a general store in Port au Prince.

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A girl eats a pot of food while living at Park Boyer in the Petionville neighborhood of Port-au-Prince.

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Earthquake survivors reach for food being distributed by the UN near Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince.

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People, including children, line up for food organized by the UN’s World Food Program in the Cite Soleil.

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A boy watches through the fence as people line up for food organized by the UN’s World Food Program in the Cite Soleil neighborhood of Port-au-Prince.

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An elderly woman begs for food from people passing by as she lays with other senior citizens outside their nursing home in Port-au-Prince. More than 100 old men and women were living outside the home, that was damaged during Tuesday’s earthquake, with no food or care other than an occasional bath from two orderlies who remained to help.

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People climb up a food distribution truck in Port-au-Prince.

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Residents reach for bananas at a food distribution centre in Port-au-Prince after Tuesday’s earthquake. Six days after a massive quake killed up to 200,000 people and wrecked most of the capital Port-au-Prince, hundreds of thousands of Haitians were still desperately waiting for assistance as scavengers and looters preyed on shattered buildings in the widespread absence of authority and order.

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People climb up a food distribution truck in Port-au-Prince.

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Bolivian UN peacekeepers distribute water and meals to the residents in Cite Soleil. Haitian earthquake survivors fought over food and water and others fled their wrecked capital as the United States rolled out what U.S. President Barack Obama called one of its largest relief efforts ever.